English Proverbs And Sayings Part 1

v    A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

v    A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.

v    A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

v    A bargain is a bargain.

v    A beggar can never be bankrupt.

v    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

v    A bird may be known by its song.

v    A black hen lays a white egg.

v    A blind leader of the blind.

v    A blind man would be glad to see.

v    A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.

v    A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

v    A burnt child dreads the fire.

v    A cat in gloves catches no mice.

v    A city that parleys is half gotten.

v    A civil denial is better than a rude grant.

v    A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.

v    A clean hand wants no washing.

v    A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.

v    A close mouth catches no flies.

v    A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.

v    A cracked bell can never sound well.

v    A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

v    A curst cow has short horns.

v    A danger foreseen is half avoided.

v    A drop in the bucket.

v    A drowning man will catch at a straw.

v    A fair face may hide a foul heart.

v    A fault confessed is half redressed.

v    A fly in the ointment.

v    A fool always rushes to the fore.

v    A fool and his money are soon parted.

v    A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

v    A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

v    A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.

v    A fool's tongue runs before his wit.

v    A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

v    A foul morn may turn to a fair day.

v    A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.

v    A friend in need is a friend indeed.

v    A friend is never known till needed.

v    A friend to all is a friend to none.

v    A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.

v    A good anvil does not fear the hammer.

v    A good beginning is half the battle.

v    A good beginning makes a good ending.

v    A good deed is never lost.

v    A good dog deserves a good bone.

v    A good example is the best sermon.

v    A good face is a letter of recommendation.

v    A good Jack makes a good Jill.

v    A good marksman may miss.

v    A good name is better than riches.

v    A good name is sooner lost than won.

v    A good name keeps its luster in the dark.

v    A good wife makes a good husband.

v    A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.

v    A great fortune is a great slavery.

v    A great ship asks deep waters.

v    A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

v    A hard nut to crack.

v    A heavy purse makes a light heart.

v    A hedge between keeps friendship green.

v    A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

v    A hungry belly has no ears.

v    A hungry man is an angry man.

v    A Jack of all trades is master of none.

v    A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

v    A lawyer never goes to law himself.

v    A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.

v    A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

v    A lie begets a lie.

v    A light purse is a heavy curse.

v    A light purse makes a heavy heart.

v    A little body often harbours a great soul.

v    A little fire is quickly trodden out.

v    A man can die but once.

v    A man can do no more than he can.

v    A man is known by the company he keeps.

v    A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

v    A miserly father makes a prodigal son.

v    A miss is as good as a mile.

v    A new broom sweeps clean.

v    A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

v    A penny saved is a penny gained.

v    A penny soul never came to two pence.

v    A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

v    A rolling stone gathers no moss.

v    A round peg in a square hole.

v    A shy cat makes a proud mouse.

v    A silent fool is counted wise.

v    A small leak will sink a great ship.

v    A soft answer turns away wrath.

v    A sound mind in a sound body.

v    A stitch in time saves nine.

v    A storm in a teacup.

v    A tattler is worse than a thief.

v    A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.

v    A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.

v    A threatened blow is seldom given.

v    A tree is known by its fruit.

v    A wager is a fool's argument.

v    A watched pot never boils.

v    A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

v    A wolf in sheep's clothing.

v    A wonder lasts but nine days.

v    A word is enough to the wise.

v    A word spoken is past recalling.

v    Actions speak louder than words.

v    Adversity is a great schoolmaster.

v    Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

v    After a storm comes a calm.

v    After dinner comes the reckoning.

v    After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.

v    After rain comes fair weather.

v    After us the deluge.

v    Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.

v    All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?

v    All are not friends that speak us fair.

v    All are not hunters that blow the horn.

v    All are not merry that dance lightly.

v    All are not saints that go to church.

v    All asses wag their ears.

v    All bread is not baked in one oven.

v    All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).

v    All covet, all lose.

v    All doors open to courtesy.

v    All is fish that comes to his net.

v    All is not lost that is in peril.

v    All is well that ends well.

v    All lay load on the willing horse.

v    All men can't be first.

v    All men can't be masters.

v    All promises are either broken or kept.

v    All roads lead to Rome.

v    All sugar and honey.

v    All that glitters is not gold.

v    All things are difficult before they are easy.

v    All truths are not to be told.

v    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

v    "Almost" never killed a fly (was never hanged).

v    Among the blind the one eyed man is king.

v    An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

v    An ass in a lion's skin.

v    An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

v    An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.

v    An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.

v    An empty sack cannot stand upright.

v    An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.

v    An evil chance seldom comes alone.

v    An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

v    An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

v    An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

v    An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

v    An oak is not felled at one stroke.

v    An old dog barks not in vain.

v    An open door may tempt a saint.

v    An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.

v    An ox is taken by the horns and a man by the tongue.

v    An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.

v    Anger and haste hinder good counsel.

v    Any port in a storm.

v    Appearances are deceitful.

v    Appetite comes with eating.

v    As drunk as a lord.

v    As innocent as a babe unborn.

v    As like as an apple to an oyster.

v    As like as two peas.

v    As old as the hills.

v    As plain as the nose on a man's face.

v    As plain as two and two make four.

v    As snug as a bug in a rug .